Conegamer said:
The main reason for that, though, is that the DS ones are remakes. This is a brand new game, so it was always going to sell much, MUCH more. I just didn't expect it would outsell it by quite as much as it did... |
Yeah, there's that too. The DS being packed with RPGs when the two Fire Emblem DS games launched probably didn't help either. This is the first truly great 3DS RPG (the greatest competition being Tales of Abyss), while the DS in 2008 had already had Pokemon, Final Fantasy (remakes and a spinoff), Mario RPGs, Advance Wars, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Quest and a bunch of other RPGs release on the system.
I'm still shocked at how it sold more in one day than Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn did in their lifetime, though. I'm not sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, it greatly increases the chances of Fire Emblem continuing as a series, but on the other, it makes it less likely we'll see more console ones, and I find the console ones to be a lot better than the handheld ones.
